| This looks to me as if the home was exported with root_squash from the
| server. This will make cups-pdf fail in any case since it uses /home as
| output directory on Debian.=20
| Martin-=C9ric - is it possible for the installation to check this and
| issue an warning?

Correct. Root has no permission remotedly, but he must log into the
machine who provides the shares. This is security issue, where
root exploit in some machine does not gain further privileges.

Jari

| 
| On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 08:53, Jari Aalto wrote:
| > Package: cups-pdf
| > Version: 1.7.3-3
| > Severity: normal
| >=20
| > The /home directory can be NFS mounted and may cause following error.
| > directly. Please take a look.
| >=20
| >    # mount | grep /home
| >    # server:/home on /home type nfs (rw,noatime,rsize=3D8192,wsize=3D81=
| 92,hard,intr,bg,addr=3D192.168.1.2)
| >=20
| >=20
| > Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
| > Get:1 http://deb unstable/main cups-pdf 1.7.3-4 [17.4kB]
| > Fetched 17.4kB in 1s (9535B/s)
| > (Reading database ... 139867 files and directories currently installed.=
| )
| > Preparing to replace cups-pdf 1.7.3-3 (using .../cups-pdf_1.7.3-4_i386.=
| deb) ...
| > mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/ANONYMOUS': Permission denied
| > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/cups-pdf_1.7.3-4_i386.de=
| b (--unpack):
| >  subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
| > Errors were encountered while processing:
| >  /var/cache/apt/archives/cups-pdf_1.7.3-4_i386.deb
| > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
| >=20
| > -- System Information:
| > Debian Release: testing/unstable
| >   APT prefers unstable
| >   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
| > Architecture: i386 (i686)
| > Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
| > Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
| > Locale: LANG=3DC, LC_CTYPE=3DC (charmap=3DISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL =
| set to en_US)
| >=20
| > Versions of packages cups-pdf depends on:
| > ii  cupsys                1.1.23-12          Common UNIX Printing Syste=
| m(tm) -=20
| > ii  gs-esp                8+8.15rc4.dfsg.1-2 The Ghostscript PostScript=
|  interpr
| > ii  libc6                 2.3.5-6            GNU C Library: Shared libr=
| aries an
| >=20
| > cups-pdf recommends no packages.
| >=20
| > -- no debconf information
| --=20
| 
| Volker Christian Behr
| Experimentelle Physik V (Biophysik), Physikalisches Institut
| Universitaet Wuerzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Wuerzburg, Germany
| 
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